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I must be bored.
Just out of curiosity: why did you post this? Are you telling me you find it somehow convincing? I mean, really, there's nothing to refute. It's not an argument, it's a piece of dumbass drivel that collects various dipshit fundy canards.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
I'll take the writer's word for location. The second statement is true only to the extent that compulsory prayer is prohibited. This person can pray to his/her little heart's content. Except out loud during class. Then again, during class they also can't recite the Bagavad Gita, Walt Whitman, or the telephone book. And they can't converse with the voices in their heads. If they want to walk down the hall praying aloud, I don't think anyone can stop them.
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
Except, I guess, during the ritual to which our poet is alluding: The Pledge Of Allegiance, in which mention of him is not only not odd, it's mandatory. For that matter, if our poet wants to respond to the question, "What is the answer to this equation?" by saying, "God," our poet will not be arrested. Flunked, perhaps, but that's only fair.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
That depends on the context. If teacher wants to start the day with a reading from the good book to get the little ones' heads screwed on right, that's a problem. If the class is literature, and they're reading the part of Song of Solomon about antelopish boobs, the wanker who wrote this doggerel would probably like it, and nobody would get in trouble. (For the irony-impaired: this would apply equally to reading the Sermon on the Mount as literature. It's the lit part, not the boobs.) But, yeah, we don't do Bible readings in class. We don't read sutras, or the Koran, or the Torah. We don't, like, do spiritual training in public schools.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
To use a term of art from constitutional law, this is horseshit. No student in the United States of America has ever been haled into federal court for bowing his, her, or its head for a moment of silent communion with the ghost of his/her/its choice.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
When schools try to force students to color their hair, get back to me. Until then, this makes no sense.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
Again, it's not about "prayers spoken aloud," it's about prayers coerced. Walk down the hall praying like a Pharisee as much as you want. Your seriously repressed mouth-breathing fellow worshipers will think you da bomb; everybody else will roll their eyes and say, "There goes WankerPoet again." The feds will not come and arrest you, no matter how much you would like to be a martyr for the lord.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
Actually, it would be far more likely to amuse them, but see martyrdom, supra, if it gets you your jollies. If by "public hall," our poet means using the school facilities for organized prayer meetings, that probably will result in trouble. Not because it might offend some prickly atheist, but because it would constitute a state endorsement of religion.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
Frankly, this bozo would have done him/her/itself a great favor by remaining silent. But we here remind our poet again of the Pledge. And money. You can walk up and down and all around just saying, "God" over and over and over again, and no one will care. Except maybe the school psychologist.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
And if these things constituted religious observances and were required, we could have an analogy here. But they aren't. And we don't.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
This will be very distressing news to the NRA. Poet should get on the horn with them forthwith. Also, no one is going to bother our little versifier if it wants to quote the Bible. As above, if Poet wants to respond to the question, "What is the theme of The Iliad by saying, "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son," the ever-present federal agents will not break down the door and carry his martyred ass off. Flunking may follow, but it will be for stupidity, not for quoting scripture. I guarantee you that, every day, all across America, little farts are throwing Bible Facks at their biology teachers what absolutely once and for all show that man didn't come from no monkeys. Not a blessed one of them has ever been hauled away in irons.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
Well, you probably can. Which proves what? If Poet votes for them while he/she/it is so worried about praying, he/she/it is more confused than I'm giving he/she/it credit for (although we suspect that Poet would so vote, having fatasized a lot about what she had to do to get that way). Am I to understand that, if only Poet were free to lead the class in prayer every morning, that would preclude this result?
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
No, it's inappropriate to teach that one particular religion has a corner on the definition of right and wrong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
Lemme get this straight: Poet goes to a school where they open the day with a Wiccan ceremony. Last I heard, vampirism wasn't a religion. 'Way back in the godly days, when schools kicked off every day with a dose of prayer and the good book, they studied totem poles. As for the condoms and "birth controls," this is a bad thing? And has just what to do with beseeching the almighty?
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
We again have an analogy struggling to fight its way into existence, and failing miserably. To the extent that anyone "studies" witchcraft in American schools, it's as part of comparative religion, or literature. In that context, the Ten Commandments (one version or the other) is every bit as allowed. You can even study all the words of god in that context.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Well, I'm convinced now. This kind of rigorous argument just shouldn't be put in front of my eyes, because now I'm gonna have to get right with god and start writing stupid poetry. On the other hand, if it means I have to hang out for eternity in heaven with the kind of nits who write this kind of shit, maybe I'll take a pass on it.
Amen
Bite me.
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